Louis Roth, born in Berlin in 2001, is a documentary photographer whose view of the outside world is inspired by the gap between reality and fictional narrative. His interest in different realities of life is characterized on the one hand by growing up in the big city of Berlin and at the same time regularly spending time on an alternative housing project in the countryside. On the other hand, his eye for fiction is inspired by fairy tales, science fiction films, fantasy novels and video games that influenced him in his youth. With calm compositions, he invites viewers to reflect on the various thematic levels in his photos.
Roth first showed his current work fata morgana in 2024 as a graduation project from the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in the exhibition ACHTZEHN. The project was then awarded and exhibited at numerous national and international photography awards, including the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award and the German Youth Photography Award, and was featured in ZEIT magazine. Prints of the work were included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago as part of the Snider Prize.
